gwern comments on Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes - Less Wrong

25 Post author: gwern 04 January 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: gwern 04 January 2013 09:06:27PM 2 points [-]

Yes, thanks. (And while I'm at it, why was I using 'likelihood factor' all over the place when it's 'likelihood ratio'...)

Comment author: Kindly 04 January 2013 11:42:11PM 2 points [-]

You may have made the same mistake in the Plot section when adding up (rather than multiplying) a bunch of likelihood ratios.

Comment author: gwern 05 January 2013 12:15:06AM *  2 points [-]

Yes, that was an error; I actually made a counterbalancing error there, where I flipped two arguments in the last two... My own ineptitude never ceases to impress me sometimes. (It's a good thing that was a hypothetical section that wasn't used in the full chained of posterior/prior calculations, because I'd've hated to have to redo them all. Again.)